http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/ Eye of the Needle - Insights from Silicon Valley and beyond. en-us Copyright 2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:03:14 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification When the big boy kicks sand in your face, you can either go home and sulk or make jokes about what big feet the bully has. You’ve gotta love upstart Zoho for taking the second course of action. An early... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/11/zoho-takes-pride-in-microsofts.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/11/zoho-takes-pride-in-microsofts.html Microsoft Office Zoho Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:03:14 -0500 Embargoes — can’t live with them, can’t live without them. That was one of several themes running through a spirited discussion among tech journalists and PR people last night. For the uninitiated, embargoes are the controversial process where a tech... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/this-tech-news-is-not-embargoe.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/this-tech-news-is-not-embargoe.html blog CNET New York Times news PBS tech reporters Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:51:44 -0500 Oddly enough, there’s a company eager to stake the claim of World’s Ugliest Web site. “Over the past few months, our team has visited thousands of Web sites, and none is as ugly as Guidezilla,” said Ryan Duques of WD... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/last-chance-to-see-worlds-ugli.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/last-chance-to-see-worlds-ugli.html Off The Beat Guidezilla Web site Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:01:07 -0500 Atigeo will have its formal coming out party next week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. CEO and co-founder Michael Sandoval is a former director of partner strategy and general manager at Microsoft where he worked for ten... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/data-intelligence-firm-lands-i.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/data-intelligence-firm-lands-i.html Atigeo Lifepass Web 2.0 Summit xPatterns Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:30:24 -0500 Remember Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s famous jab at the iPhone when it first came out at a $500 price? “…that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/why-steve-ballmer-now-digs-hig.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/why-steve-ballmer-now-digs-hig.html Smartphones Armani Samsung Steve Ballmer Windows Mobile 6.5 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:10:21 -0500 The next great car safety breakthrough could come from outer space. Ford Motor Company and Auburn University said a joint research project shows global positioning system (GPS) satellites that “talks” to cars could help prevent accidents in the future. The... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/is-gps-that-talks-to-cars-a-sa.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/is-gps-that-talks-to-cars-a-sa.html car safety Ford GPS Volvo Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:23:00 -0500 Google and the Wharton School think it can help provide some of the answers. The two are teaming up on “Fast. Forward” a new YouTube channel that features short, 30 sec - 3 minute videos from industry and academic thought... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/whats-the-future-of-advertisin.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/whats-the-future-of-advertisin.html Google Wharton YouTube Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:52:32 -0500 The name EDS, long synonymous with high end, IT outsourcing and consulting services, is going away. Today HP brought the consulting giant further into its fold with the announcement that EDS has been renamed HP Enterprise Services. Hewlett-Packard bought EDS... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/hp-says-goodbye-to-eds-name.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/hp-says-goodbye-to-eds-name.html Dell EDS HP Perot Systems Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:20:34 -0500 Too much good stuff for even a lengthy blog post about last night’s Larry Ellison’s event. In my earlier blog I focused on his comments regarding Oracle’s purchase of Sun. “We’re keeping everything,” Ellison said in rousing affirmation of his... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/oracles-larry-ellison-unplugge.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/oracles-larry-ellison-unplugge.html Larry Ellison Oracle Sun Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:01:42 -0500 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Larry Ellison was on fire Monday night. Steve Jobs is the unquestioned master of the pre-rehearsed, carefully choreographed event speech complete with new technology props, but for off-the-cuff, tell ‘em like I see ‘em, entertaining bluster,... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/ellison-sun-losing-100-million.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/ellison-sun-losing-100-million.html EC IBM Larry Ellison Oracle Sun Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:49:06 -0500 When Netflix decided to try and make significant improvements to the system it uses to recommend movies, the company took a unique approach to getting the job done. Rather than hire more staff, it banked on a unusual form of... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/team-wins-1-million-for-helpin.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/team-wins-1-million-for-helpin.html Off The Beat contest Netflix Reed Hastings Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:31:54 -0500 Imagine you’re a tech startup with a great new Web service or product idea. You get enough funding to build out the staff and start developing the product in earnest. A year later, you realize the market’s changed; another company... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/tech-insider-says-plan-b-is-a.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/tech-insider-says-plan-b-is-a.html Apple ChurchillClub Cooliris Google Tivo Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:34:14 -0500 Enough already. After being bashed by vulture-like competitors for months about its commitment to Sun, Oracle is starting to fight back. As my colleague Andy Patrizio noted in several recent articles, HP and IBM have rolled out the red carpet... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/oracle-goes-on-a-sun-offensive.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/oracle-goes-on-a-sun-offensive.html HP IBM Larry Ellison MySQL Oracle Sun Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:04:26 -0500 SAN FRANCISCO — Motorola and T-Mobile had the big news at last week’s Gigaom Mobilize conference. Motorola finally unveiled its strategy for a line of Android-based mobile devices and T-Mobile unveiled the first model, the Cliq, due out in the... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/the-android-announcement-you-m.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/the-android-announcement-you-m.html Smartphones Android Apple Gigaom INQ iPhone Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:48:40 -0500 Security researchers are warning that the recent 3.1 update to Apple’s iPhone software doesn’t prevent phishing attacks consistently or as well as the company’s desktop version of the Safari browser. The anti-phishing feature should warn users when they may be... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/apples-iphone-phishing-expedit.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/apples-iphone-phishing-expedit.html iPhone Mac OS X Mobile Safari phishing Safari Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:36:21 -0500